About Us

Our Vision

Our Mission

To spread happiness and love in the world by life coaching,education, writing and public appearances. To inspire the lives of those around us and create a positive ripple of connectedness and caring.

How Be Happy in LIFE came to be

Life coaching has been around for a long time. At first it was called spiritual leading and philosophy and shifted to evidence based psychology towards emotional intelligence. Coaching reached it’s peak popularity with the advance of modern technology and modern life.

Coaching is a very new and trendy name to something that great philosophers,spiritual leaders, psychologist and personal development experts like Wayne Dyer, Brian Tracy and Jim Rohn have done many years ago. Their teaching, empowering messages and motivation tools that once was available to just a few are now accessible to all.

Life coaching is a very successful strategy to shifts your focus from “Why is my glass half-empty?” to “I want my glass to be full. How can I fill it?”. The Be Happy in LIFE coaching program is very successful as it helps you do it fast and also gives you the tools to keep your glass full.

Ronit Baras, the founder and creator of the Be Happy in life program, studied Special Education with a focus on emotional intelligence and have been coaching for 28 years in different formats.

The trigger to change focus from working in education and only with kids, parents and teachers to working with couples, business people, organisations and adults in general, happened after she and her husband, Gal, went through the Tony Robbins’ program. Before they went though the program they thought life was very exciting, happy and loving and didn’t think it can get better than that. but it did and they have realised that there are deeper levels of love, connection, different levels of being.

All the roads leads to happiness

No matter from which angle you look at personal development, love, purpose and connection, it always gets to happiness. The search for happiness is the reason we do what we do and the ultimate reason to get up in the morning. It is our perception of happiness, which determines our attitude to life. ” Unfortunately, they don’t teach happiness in school. We have made a choice to establish the Be Happy in LIFE community, open the school of life and make it a course that available to all” and this is how Be Happy in LIFE was born.

Coaching is a state of awareness, just like surrounding yourself with children as a teacher keeps you feeling young. If you surround yourself with people who are going forward, no matter what happened in their past,It keeps you positive and inspired. ” We do learn best what we teach, so we learn every day, with every client, that happiness is a choice and that making good choices develops us into strong, focused beings. This is why we teach our clients to teach others”.

What makes Be Happy in LIFE the best choice for you

In the happiness equation, there are many aspects – our health, our career, our finance, our social life and, most of all, our relationships. Relationships, are at the heart of happiness. Relationships with ourselves, with our partners, our kids, our parents and siblings, our friends, our bosses, our colleagues and our employees. Glasser, in his theory of choice, which is one of the major aspects of the Be Happy in LIFE program, found a great correlation to happiness, success and even sanity. He proved with many clients that the need to connect and belong are basic needs that determine all aspects in life.

This understanding brought Be Happy in LIFE to focus on relationships as the main ingredient in people’s behaviour. In Be Happy in LIFE coaching for individuals, couples,students, parents, teachers, schools, organisations and businesses, relationship is the ring that rules all other needs and achievements. It is not the kind of job they do, their academic abilities, not their ages, not their family structure or their financial status it is how well they communicate with themselves and others, which is the foundation of strong emotional intelligence.

Be Happy in LIFE empower clients, readers and presentations and workshop participants to masters relationships and equip them with a good sense of self and with confidence in the direction they have chosen. It teaches them advanced yet simple ways to connect with others and fulfill the ultimate need for love and connection.

Happiness is a choice. Choose to be happy!

About Ronit Baras

Ronit is an educator, life coach, author, journalist and justice of peace. She is an international speaker and presenter and has been writing, coaching and teaching emotional intelligence techniques for 28 years around the world (USA, Israel, Thailand, Singapore & Australia). She has developed a range of workshops, presentations, and special programs, which have been hugely successful and have touched the lives of millions of people around the world. .

Ronit is currently teaching at the University of Queensland and training for the Institute of Public Administrators (IPAA) Queensland. She is the State director of the Together for Humanity Foundation and was the Global Citizenship School program director. She has conducted many motivational presentations and workshops on personal development, excellence in teaching, relationship and parenting in Australia and overseas.

Ronit is an experienced and powerful coach, delivering inspiring messages of motivation, happiness, love, respect, determination and success to her readers, coaching clients and to people who attend her workshops and training. In the last 4 years alone, she ran workshop, training day, was a keynote speaker and presented to over 57,000 people.

For her community work, she was nominated twice for the Australian of the year and for the International Women Peace Award by the Women’s Federation for World Peace.

Ronit has helped many people, young and old turbo-charge their lives, establish great relationships, find their purpose and discover the joys of a successful life. Her writing was published by educational magazines in Australia and around the world and her practical parenting blog Family Matters is a great practical resource for families, parents and teachers, already containing over 1,500 articles on personal development, emotional intelligence, education, relationships, family life and parenting. This blog was launched in 2004 and attracts 50,000 readers from around the world each month.

Ronit thinks that people can live a happy life by learning basic emotional skills to manage their feelings and actions and to take charge of their life and that parents and teachers are very important agents in this process.

Emotional intelligence is the key to success in life and all other aspects of life are just side effects of our ability to recognise and manage our feelings. Though we are not born with this ability, luckily, internal motivation can be developed so you can use the key to the doors to endless possibilities

A note from Ronit

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

In presenting myself, I had to choose what to put at the front because I did and still do so many things, under so many hats and titles. I’m a partner to Gal, a mother to 3 wonderful children, I teach kids with learningdifficulties, gifted children, university students, language, math and emotional intelligence. I’m a journalist, an author (see my books). I am a life coach,motivational speaker, a workshop facilitator and trainer, a community worker, Justice of peace , director of a non-for profit organisation and the list will never end. I’m thinking about each of them and realise they have many things in common, It is only different dress to the same figure. I, with every cell of my body am a happy and proud educator and I use education to help people connect with themselves and others.

Teaching is the business of manipulating students into thinking they are smart, courageous, talented, friendly, able and happy

Ronit Baras

Education is a big part of my life, I am sure it takes a big part of your life as well. Our parents and our school years have had a huge impact on who we are today, with happy and not-so-happy experiences. I value education and its power and wish to pass it on.

My non-professional life started … a long time ago (I’ll let you guess – Clue: I have a 24 year-old daughter). The highlights were: being a child with disability, being sick and being very unsuccessful at school. These were the three things that had the greatest contribution to my top successes in life, the things that I’ve learned to turn into my greatest achievements and I am very happy to share and teach others how to do the same.

My professional career started 28 years ago, when I decided to study Special Education in hope of saving all the kids in the world (including my young self) from the evil of non-acceptance. I was lucky, while being a student, to work in a Special Education project led by a professor in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem called “Creative Thinking”. Yes, I was lucky, because while working with him, I experienced things that would have taken me a lifetime otherwise and I had a chance to work and learn from the most inspiring people in the education and psychology industry and to adopt a different mindset. I learned from them that there is hope, there are always great ways to developed kids, one size does not fit all and that I have a “magic powder” with a special property: the more I give from this powder, the more I have from it. So I specialised in emotional intelligence and dedicated all my life to learning difficulties, increasing intelligence and building emotional skills.

A good teacher is like a candle- it consumes itself to light the way for others.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, translated from Turkish

During those 4 years of development and work in the creative thinking project and studying , I could see how amazing and successful the tools were, but couldn’t stop asking myself “how can I pass them to others, to allow them to make educated decisions?” Sure enough, the answer appeared and I wrote the “Garden of Eden” program and opened a childcare centre and had the time of my life using this powder and proving that all kids are very talented if we only provide the right environment for them. by Implementing the Garden of Eden program I could take “regular kids” ( which are not regular at all, no kid is regular) and turn them to gifted children and when you do it to 100% of the kids, you know it is not the kids, it is the program.

The Garden of Eden program focused on early detection of any learning difficulties, developing emotional intelligence, using Neuro linguistic programming to enhance performance, promoting fun as incentive and tailored individual program ( I did it for 200 kids every year as part of my creative thinking work, creating an individual program to 30 each year was a piece of cake)

One aspect of the program that contributed greatly to its success was was coaching the parents to make sure they would be able to support their kids afterwards. It might sound surprising to you, but the techniques were so good and easy to learn they worked perfectly on the children and their parents. This was when I found out that this magic powder is not limited to age.

After two years of a great success, with my husband, Gal, and my eldest daughter, I moved to Texas USA. This was the beginning of a great adventure of travelling the world which I hope will never end. In Texas, a school that was about to close heard about my program and asked me to join. There, I implement my program the second time. This time, it was easier, better, with faster results (the school grew when I was there and stayed open about 10 years after I left).

At this stage, you’re probably asking yourself what was so special about this program that it saved a school from closing and being better and faster than the first one? The answer is that this program doesn’t teach knowledge. It focuses on personal development. It is not about theories but implementation but about gaining skills and changing thinking from within.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

Education in its early years focused on knowledge – we gave the kids “fish“, which was “food for a day”. Later on, focus moved to skills and thinking and my program had plenty of those, so I gave the kids “fishing lines” and knew they would last them longer. But the reason my program was faster was that I found a way of giving them a “fishing NET” by coaching their network, their parents and teachers and get them to empower the kids to be themselves and establish strong emotional intelligence. This was when I knew that whatever I do must be holistic in its approach.

Parts of my program were later implemented in California and Thailand and a full implementation was done in the greatest two years of my education career in Singapore. This implementation I consider to be one of my greatest achievements (except my 3 wonderful children and my relationship with Gal), because it was the most challenging and the most successful. At this stage, I believed that personal development was equally important for the adults and the kids, and that my work on a person, young or old, as a whole creates a ripple effect that spreads far beyond my work with them. After the work in Singapore as an academic director, I knew the sky was the limit.

I've spent most of my adult life trying to recover from a difficult childhood and, like a lot of people, I have tried many therapies and read countless self-help books. Some of this was very helpful, but Life Coaching gave me the real motivation to make changes, which have led to improvements in all areas of my life.

Although my focus was on career development, I found that looking at how I think and what I believe, and setting goals and formulating steps to achieve these, with the guidance and encouragement of my Life Coach, has brought me a degree of success and happiness, which I hardly believed would be possible at the beginning of my journey. It has changed my outlook on life and possibilities, and given me the insight and skills to continue the journey forward on all fronts.

I highly recommend the Be Happy in LIFE coaching program to anyone, whatever age or stage in life.

Maria Delaney, Gender-Equity Consultant

Later on, I moved with my family to Melbourne Australia for three years and started consulting schools to shift their focus to emotional intelligence. I loved every minute of it as it helped me reach bigger audience and spread the success and happiness message to more and more people.

Our move to Sunny and tropical Queensland, 11 years ago, started a new adventure as we have made the choice to settle.(still Australia but much, much warmer) . straight after our move, I launched my career as a journalist started my work for the University of Queensland, wrote my diversity programs, became a director of a non – for profit organisation doing diversity programs around Australia, was the schools program director of another educational non for profit organisation, wrote my 7 books, became a justice of peace, and a leader in my community.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

The decision to become a professional life coach was made shortly after we moved. Gal and I have made a choice to go through the Anthony Robbins program. It did a lot for us and our whole family and I knew I needed to add this as a tool to my education toolbox. It was another powerful emotional intelligence tool and I felt my magic powder was more effective and worked faster.Again, I asked myself “How can I share this with others?” and found two ways of doing it, two ways that are my passion and to which I had dedicated many years of my life: to educate and to write. My goal was to make the coaching and reading a growth experience during sessions or reading for the effect to last long after. I receive feedback emails and testimonials every day that encourages and reassures me that I achieve my goal and that this Be Happy in LIFE toolkit I have created, works.

What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased.

Author Unknown

I coach men, women, couples, singles, married, divorced or separated, gays, straight, parents, kids,teenagers,elders, executives, groups,organisations leaders and followers . My clients come from a wide range of ages, abilities, professionals and cultural backgrounds and the program works because it is individually tailored to specific need . Among my clients are consultants, business owners, CEOs, general managers, lawyers, trades people, hair dressers,housewives, teachers, principals, engineers, IT people, designers, accountants, real estate experts, performers, artists, psychologists councilors, coaches,high school and university, students, professors, lecturers, government employees, police officers and the variety is great and I love it.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

John Dewey

When they describe me they say I believe in what I do with all my heart, that I live my passions, my dreams and my purpose every day of my life and for that I’m happy and grateful. Coaching is a wonderful tool and I love its power to inspire people to grow and live their dreams.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry B Adams

My own dream is to spread the message of positive thinking, strong emotional intelligence and acceptance to the world. I live this dream wearing different hats and titles and every time I write and coach. It is exciting to be in a profession where I grow when my clients grow,when I succeed when they succeed, where I get from them as much as I give them, if not more. I inspire them and they inspire me and it is a never ending cycleof a positive ripple, sweeping and getting bigger every day that I’m happy to be a part of.

May the force be with you!Ronit (Little Happy Song – this is the meaning of my name)